Jaymi Heimbuch

Editor / San Francisco, CA

Jaymi writes on technology, wildlife conservation, and ocean issues.

She received her degree in English and Creative Writing from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and married her loves of writing and green technology while working as Managing Editor for EcoGeek.org. Jaymi's writing orbits around her passions for environmental conservation and technology as a tool for social and environmental change. Her wildlife photography covers subjects as diverse as albatross on Midway Atoll to grizzly bears along Alaska's coastline to coyotes living in crowded cities.

The monarch butterfly is an iconic species, and its extraordinary multi-generational migration across the continent is mind-boggling. However, these beautiful butterflies are in immediate danger of disappearing altogether from several factors we can fix.

In this amazing shot, a flock of birds look like the last of a tree's leaves, blowing away from its now-bare branches. The photographer captured this winter sunset scene at Katie's Woods near Grapevine Lake in Texas.

This photo from 2011 shows houses stranded near Pea Island NWR after Hurricane Irene blew through the area. With climate change causing both stronger storms and rising sea levels, beach front property is no longer the investment it once was.

Talk about an idyllic scene. This is Old Chevak, a village in Alaska abandoned decades ago due to flooding during high storm tides. The old buildings still provide an incredible setting for sunrises and sunsets, and a beautiful place to visit.

The Gyrfalcon is the largest of all falcon species, and is found in cold northern climes. Though they are sleek and dignified-looking as adults the nestlings are, well, somewhat less so. Though this little one does have a rather stern look nevertheless.

This vibrantly colored insect is native to western North America. It not only looks red hot, but it also prefers living around warm ponds or hot springs, making its name "flame skimmer" quite appropriate.

Churchill in Manitoba is one of the great destinations for people wanting to view polar bears. But for the people who live there, managing the human-bear conflicts is a serious concern, especially as the species is pushed to its limits by climate change.

The Aurora Borealis is one of the most spectacular natural phenomenons one can have the pleasure of witnessing. The dance of color across the sky has to do with electrons from solar wind interacting with the atmosphere, but it will always feel like magic.

The Kirtland's warbler is particular about where it lives. It can be found in the jack pine forests of the northern lower peninsula of Michigan where conservationists have been working on a clever strategy to bring the species back from the brink.